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1 online resource (267 pages) |
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LUP Dissertaties |
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LUP Dissertaties
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SUMMARY; SAMENVATTING; CHAPTER 1 -- INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 2 Ontogeny of the skull, lower jaw and hyobranchial skeleton of Hypogeophisrostratus (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) revisited; CHAPTER 3 Morphology of larval caecilian amphibians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona): implications for caecilian evolution; CHAPTER 4 Heterochrony, ontogenetic repatterning, and the evolution of direct development in caecilian amphibians; CHAPTER 5 A novel form of parental investment by skin feeding in a caecilian amphibian |
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CHAPTER 6 Morphology and function of the head in foetal and juvenile Scolecomorphuskirkii (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Scolecomorphidae)CHAPTER 7 -- SYNOPSIS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Curriculum vitae; Publications |
| Summary |
Caecilians, or Gymnophiona, constitute one of the three extant orders of the Recent Amphibia and comprise about 170 named species in six families. They are the least known, major living tetrapod clade. Compared to frogs and salamanders, caecilians have an unusual skull morphology. With few exceptions, previous studies on caecilian morphology have been restricted to investigations on adult material and were usually carried out on small samples. This thesis investigates skull development in caecilians. Earlier reports of an unusually high number of individual skull ossifications in Hypogeophis r |
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Print version record |
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Skull.
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Caecilians -- Development
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Caecilians -- Morphology
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Skull
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789048504992 |
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9048504996 |
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